Chocolate Chip Cookies Have a Salty Big Sibling

Try to see if you can count how many of batches of chocolate chip cookies you’ve made in your life. Twenty? Forty? Seventy-five? Whenever you add these kinds of things up, the numbers always end up seeming startlingly low–a batch a week for ten years would only be 520, which somehow seems like not a lot–but we’re guessing that you’ve never dusted the tops of your Toll Houses or what-have-you with a layer of flaky, crunchy salt.

Grouping these Salty Chocolate Chunk Cookies in with all the other choco-chips is a little unfair, honestly, since just one of the chunks could probably beat a whole gang of chips in a choco-cagematch, but they’re in the same family. Except saltier (in a good way).